I’m so excited Criminal Minds is going to Comic-Con. Any idea what Reid will be up to this season? — AlexOut of the gate, Reid will have at least one new thing to deal with: the arrival of linguistics expert Alex Blake (new cast member Jeanne Tripplehorn), who he formerly knew through his work at Georgetown. “I think she was a professor…[and] he used to lecture in her classroom,” Matthew Gray Gubler told us at the premiere of Amazing Spider-Man last night. Beyond that, he’s not sure. But one thing he is sure of? The pair’s history is purely platonic. “No, I don’t think they’re going to go there,” he says of a possible romantic history being revealed. “[But] I wouldn’t mind it because I love her. I totally have a crush on her.”

Now that Matthew has a deal, any chance we’ll see Reid get a REAL storyline this season? — AmayaGube would certainly love to see it — especially if it brings a little closure to certain open-ended aspects of Dr. Reid. “A lot of things with Reed get left open-ended,” he said. “[The writers] start stories and then never finish them with Reid for some reason. They have ADD about him. They have A.D.REID — I’ll be here all week.”

Any Criminal Minds scoop? — BryanCriminal Minds fans, today is your day! (A triple scoop!) And the finale piece today comes from Kirsten Vangsness, who tells me she wants to see Garcia playing the field this season. “I’m hoping [for] a lot of dates — a lot of dates. Men. Women. Men and women — I don’t know. Your guess is as good as mine. But that’s my hope.” Mine, too!!